Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner held under house arrest by Myanmar's junta, left her home for the first time since May on Saturday to meet with a U.N. diplomat, officials said.Suu Kyi was escorted from her lakeside compound in a three-car convoy to a nearby government guesthouse for talks with U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.Gambari, who is pressing the government to adopt human rights and political reforms, met with Suu Kyi previously in May -- the last time she was permitted to leave her home. The 61-year-old political prisoner has spent 11 of the last 17 years in detention, mostly under house arrest.This time, like the last, the meeting was conducted under tight security. Suu Kyi was driven in a black sedan with tinted windows, the officials said. The country's police chief was seated in the same car.... http://www.cnn.com

This Veterans Day, Paul Baffico will be in Washington to don his special hat and shirt--the one with the Screaming Eagles insignia--and put in an eight-hour stint at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It is the Lake Bluff resident's seventh trip to volunteer at the wall, a monthly ritual he started only in May. In fact, the veteran had shunned the site for years. Too many names. Too much heartache. But now, at age 60 and almost four decades after his military service, the memorial is where he finds peace. He is part of a new wave of volunteers who have reached a time of life that allows for more reflection on their battlefield experiences. "I just wanted to block it all out, put it into a container and forget about it," Baffico said of his time with the Army's 101st Airborne Division. "Now we know that doesn't work." Goodness knows he tried. He got married and raised two sons. He channeled his energy into a hard-charging career with Sears, rising to president of its Automotive Group. ...http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611110243nov11,1,4673706.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

An association of lawyers defending detainees held at a United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said on Friday that it would be filing suit against outgoing US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his alleged role in sanctioning torture. The group said the Centre for Constitutional Rights "would file a criminal complaint against former secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld in a German court" on November 14. The complaint asks the German federal prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of high-ranking US officials for authorising war crimes in the context of the Bush administration's war on terror. Also charged in the complaint are former White House counsel and current attorney general Alberto Gonzales, former director of the Central Intelligence George Tenet, and other high-ranking US officials. 'Substantial new evidence' The complaint will be brought on behalf of 12 victims - ...http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2028702,00.html

Pope Benedict XVI will meet in Turkey later this month with a top Islamic cleric who denounced the pope's remarks on Islam and violence.During the pope's Nov. 28-Dec. 1 visit to the predominantly Muslim nation, he will also visit a symbol of Turkey's official commitment to secularism — the mausoleum of the Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who is honored as the founder of the modern Turkish state.The Vatican on Saturday released details of the trip, which was originally planned so that Benedict could meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, as the pontiff pursues closer relations among Christians.But the trip quickly turned into a test of Catholic-Muslim relations after much of the Muslim world reacted angrily to a Sept. 12 speech in which Benedict quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor describing Islam as a religion spread by the sword....http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-11-11-pope-turkey_x.htm?csp=34

The Navy will help move the historic aircraft carrier USS Intrepid from its muddy berth in the Hudson River to New Jersey for repairs, officials said Saturday. The agreement comes after the floating carrier museum refused to budge Monday despite tugboats' attempts to pull it from the mud at its Manhattan pier. The ship has rested in the spot for 24 years. Under the agreement — hammered out after four days of talks between officials of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the Pentagon — the Navy will give salvage support to try to free the vessel. That support will fall within guidelines of the Army Corps of Engineers permit issued to the museum for dredging. Still unknown is when the operation will be finished and the carrier towed to Bayonne, N.J. The Intrepid was at the center of World War II in the Pacific after it was deployed in 1943...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228830,00.html

Russia and Iran will work on resumption of six-party talks, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian news agencies on Saturday after President Vladimir Putin met Iran's nuclear envoy."There is an agreement that our contacts will be continued and, of course, we will work on achieving our common goal — resumption of six-party talks," Lavrov was quoted by the agencies as saying. Moscow had hoped to find a resolution to the Iranian nuclear crisis during the so far two-day visit by Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani. Western nations accuse Iran of trying secretly to build an atomic arsenal, but Iran says it has the right to enrich uranium and wants only to generate electricity. On Friday, Larijani said after meeting senior Russian officials that Iran would review relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if the U.N. Security Council adopted a European draft resolution imposing sanctions. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2646606